M. DUBOST: Always in death? So each experiment is equivalent to a murder for which the SS are collectively responsible?
BALACHOWSKY: For which those who established this institution are responsible.
M. DUBOST: That is the SS as a whole, and the German medical corps in particular?
BALACHOWSKY: Definitely so, as the orders came from the Versuchsabteilung 5 (Research Section 5). The SS were responsible as the orders were issued by that section at Leipzig and, therefore, came from the Supreme Command of the Waffen SS.
M. DUBOST: Thank you. What were the results of the experiments made on sexual hormones?
BALACHOWSKY: They were less serious. Besides, these were ridiculous experiments from the scientific point of view. There were, at Buchenwald, a number of homosexuals, that is to say, men who had been convicted by German tribunals for this vice. These homosexuals were sent to concentration camps, especially to Buchenwald, and were mixed with the other prisoners.
M. DUBOST: Especially with the so-called political prisoners, who in reality were patriots?
BALACHOWSKY: With all kinds of prisoners.
M. DUBOST: All were in the company of these German inverts?
BALACHOWSKY: Yes. They wore a pink triangle to distinguish them.